Assertion of consistency within a complex object database using a relationship construct
We define semantic overlapping as the description of different points of view on the same application context in different...
Improving quality in conceptual modelling by the use of schema transformations
The quality of the results produced in the early phases of systems development is a major factor in determining...
A cryptographic mechanism for object-instance-based authorization in object-oriented database systems
In this paper a mechanism for access control at the instance level of a class in object-oriented databases is...
An approach to maintaining optimized relational representations of entity-relationship schemas
This paper presents a redesign method for maintaining optimized relational representations of entity-relationship schemas. This method is based on...
Transforming conceptual models to object-oriented database designs: Practicalities, properties, and peculiarities
More work is needed on devising practical, but theoretically well-founded procedures for doing object-oriented database (OODB) design. Besides being...
Representing partial spatial information in databases
In this paper we present a spatial data model which facilitates the representation of and reasoning with various forms...
Specification of calendars and time series for temporal databases
Most temporal data models have concentrated on describing temporal data based on versioning of objects, tuples, or attributes. The...
View-centered conceptual modelling
Information systems for highly skilled clerical workers present themselves as a collection of window-based processes with underlying procedures accessing...
Reverse engineering of relational database physical schemas
This paper seeks to present and illustrate essential aspects of database physical de-optimisation within the context of a reverse...
Extracting n-ary relationships through database reverse engineering
This paper presents an automatic process for reverse engineering the n-ary relationship tables from an operating relational database. This...
